The inventor of the automatic machine gun, Hiram Maxim, spent so much time test-firing his guns that he became profoundly deaf. His son Hiram Percy Maxim eventually invested the silencer, but too late to save his father's hearing.

[u/HollywoodHypeBeast]

[u/griffball2k18]

They don't silence the gunshot, but HP Maxim did call it a "Silencer" on his patent

[u/GooniestMcGoon → u/griffball2k18]

silencer, suppressor, your face, my ass, it’s all the same

[u/Male-Wood-duck → u/GooniestMcGoon]

The term is suppressor, not silencer.

[u/BitchTitsRecords → u/Male-Wood-duck]

The invention was called a silencer. By the inventor.